Exile and suffering : a selection of papers read at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Old Testament Society of South Africa OTWSA/OTSSA, Pretoria, August 2007 / / edited by Bob Becking and Dirk Human.
At the fiftieth anniversary of the Old Testament Society of South Africa a conference was organized on the theme Exile and Suffering. This volume contains a selection of the papers presented. Focal questions are such themes as: What do we really know about the Exile? To what degree did suffering tak...
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| Superior document: | Oudtestamentische studiën = Old Testament studies, v. 50. |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2009. |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oudtestamentische studiën ;
d. 50. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 pages) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Sin, suffering, and sagacity : Genesis 2-3 / Gerda de Villiers
- Suffering and hope during the Exile / Jurie Le Roux
- Suffering from formlessness : the ban on images in Exilic times / Matthias Köckert
- Interrupting God-language : rethinking the image of God as liberator in Isaiah 42 / L. Juliana M. Claassens
- Myth, metaphor or memory? the allusions to Creation and Exodus in Isaiah 51:9-11 as a theological response to suffering during the Exile / Hendrik Bosman
- The assassination of Gedaliah (Jer. 40:7-41:18) / Eric Peels
- Perspective after the Exile : the King, [ʻvdj], 'My servant' in Jeremiah : some reflections on MT and LXX / Raymond de Hoop
- Exile in Hosea 9:3-6 : where and for what purpose? / Gert Kwakkel
- Perverse delight : some observations on an unpleasant theme in the Old Testament / Klaas Spronk
- Exile and pain : a chapter from the story of God's emotions / Eep Talstra
- Does exile equal suffering? a fresh look at Psalm 137 / Bob Becking
- The poetics of exile and suffering : memory and perceptions : a cognitive-linguistics study of Lamentations / Yehoshua Gitay
- The Exile as Sabbath rest : the Chronicler's interpretation of the Exile / Louis Jonker
- Lamenting the loss of lament, the language for our times / Frances Klopper
- Interpreting 'the Exile' in African Biblical scholarship : an ideo-theological dilemma in post-colonial South Africa / Gerald West.